Who is Rose Friedman?

Rose Director Friedman was born in Russia in 1911 and
immigrated with her family to Portland as a young child.
She is the wife of Milton Friedman, the late Nobel-Prize
winning economist.

Rose attended Failing Elementary in Portland
(now closed) and Lincoln High School along with her
sisters and brother, Aaron Director.

She attended Reed College and then transferred to the
University of Chicago where she met Milton and received
a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. She continued her
training in economics, completing all work for a Ph.D.
except for writing a thesis.

She collaborated with her husband on three books on
public policy that have received wide attention and
circulation: Capitalism and Freedom (University of
Chicago Press, 1962), Free to Choose (Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1980), and Tyranny of the Status Quo
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984). She also served as
associate producer of the PBS television series, "Free to Choose."

She received an honorary LL.D. in December 1986
from Pepperdine University. She and her husband
established the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
for the purpose of promoting parental choice of the
schools their children attend. The Foundation is based
in Indianapolis.

She and her husband published their memoirs:
Milton and Rose D. Friedman, Two Lucky People
(University of Chicago Press) in 1998.